An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. Including Many of His Original Letters. [With a Portrait.], المجلد 1Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 من الصفحات |
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... learned " the tale of Troy divine , ” and first became acquainted with English versification . † Even at that early * For such books as he read at this early period , he was al- most solely indebted to the Rev. Mr Thomson , at that time ...
... learned " the tale of Troy divine , ” and first became acquainted with English versification . † Even at that early * For such books as he read at this early period , he was al- most solely indebted to the Rev. Mr Thomson , at that time ...
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... learned Principal was the first person who gave very happy , in thus recalling to his imagination all the ideas with which his favourite author had at first inspired him , even through the medium of such a translation . * Mrs Valentine ...
... learned Principal was the first person who gave very happy , in thus recalling to his imagination all the ideas with which his favourite author had at first inspired him , even through the medium of such a translation . * Mrs Valentine ...
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... learned as a writer , was a man of the utmost simplicity of manners and naiveté of character ; pleasant and agreeable in conversation , and most at- tentive to the discharge of all the duties of his station as a mi- nister of the gospel ...
... learned as a writer , was a man of the utmost simplicity of manners and naiveté of character ; pleasant and agreeable in conversation , and most at- tentive to the discharge of all the duties of his station as a mi- nister of the gospel ...
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... learned and philosophical friends , from whose writings those two universities have justly derived so great celebrity . He was distinguished by his publications , viz . " An Essay on Taste , " to which was ad- judged the gold prize ...
... learned and philosophical friends , from whose writings those two universities have justly derived so great celebrity . He was distinguished by his publications , viz . " An Essay on Taste , " to which was ad- judged the gold prize ...
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... learned and ingenious Mr Jo- seph Warton , " he goes on , " did not come into hands till long after what is now offered to " the public was finished . The perusal of these " two masterly versions , " he says , " might have CC 66 my ...
... learned and ingenious Mr Jo- seph Warton , " he goes on , " did not come into hands till long after what is now offered to " the public was finished . The perusal of these " two masterly versions , " he says , " might have CC 66 my ...
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